Many people pick up food products from the shelves and put them in their shopping cart without really knowing exactly what has gone through them. The documentary “Food Inc.”, directed by Robert Kenner, helps us realize all the difficulties we face in our food industry. For example, one of our biggest problems is that our food is no longer produced on every American farm, but in dirty, abusive factories. Not only are these processed foods unhealthy for us, but workers and animals are also seriously mistreated. Our food industry is rapidly spreading many different diseases throughout our American society, ranging from brain damage to miscarriages and birth defects. Due to the irresponsibility of our food industry today, the ability of diseases to spread is very simple. Especially now that animals on factory farms generate an excessive amount of feces, a volume far greater than that produced by the entire population of the United States. This waste not only pollutes the air we breathe but also the water we drink; thus, it eventually spread across our country. Our nation's factory farms create approximately 89,000 pounds of waste, approximately every second. This waste contains highly concentrated chemicals and bacterial toxins, which do not benefit from waste treatment systems. According to a contamination study conducted by the Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service, engineer John Chastain said, “Data indicates that the polluting potency of raw manure is 160 times that of raw municipal sewage. » (Chastain, “Greener Media”). Now the question arises: what do we do with this excess waste? The answer is that the waste is usually dumped in lagoons to rot, or it is also pulverized...... middle of paper ......004. 64-87. Print.Food Inc. Dir. Robert Kenner. Perf. N/A. Youtube.com, 2008. Online documentary. Clark, Marler. “About E. Coli.” E. Coli food poisoning | E. Coli food poisoning. OutBreak Inc, February 2, 2011. Web. May 3, 2011. .McPhee, Laura. “Industrial farms”. NUVO. Np, November 28, 2008. Web. April 15, 2014. McDonald, L. Clifford, Matthew J. Kuehnert, Fred C. Tenover, and William R. Jarvis (1997). “Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Outside the Health Care Setting: Prevalence, Sources, and Public Health Implications” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Alanta, Georgia, 3.Hamblin, James. “Toxins that threaten our brain.” The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, March 18, 2014. Web. April 14, 2014. “Neighbors of sprawling hog farms say foul air puts their health at risk. » The New York Times. The New York Times, May 10, 2003. Web. April 15. 2014.